Spirited One-design Sailboat Racing on Casco Bay… for Over 20 Years (click logo for latest updated race results)
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Welcome to the website of Etchells Fleet 27. Fleet 27 organizes sailboat racing on Casco Bay, Maine (USA) in one-design Etchells class sailboats. Fleet 27 created this website to foster communication and collaboration among the members and friends of Fleet 27.
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An international one-design racing sailboat, which has fostered sportsmanship, seamanship, and lasting friendships among corinthian and professional competitors from around the world for over 50 years.
Rat to Mole, rowing upriver in Rat’s boat: “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats… or with boats… In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“It’s the rules that make sailing a game. It’s the PEOPLE that make the game fun.”
— Dave Perry, Champion Sailor, Sailing Coach, Sailing Rules Guru, and member of the National Sailing Hall of Fame.
“You haven’t won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors.”
― Paul Elvstrøm, Multi-class World & Olympic Champion
Coach Jimmy Dugan to Dottie Hinson: “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”
— A League of Their Own, Dir. Penny Marshall. Columbia Pictures, 1992. Film.
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